Analysis: Pipsqueak is too rude a word to use in the House of Commons

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A pipsqueak is a person or thing that is insignificant or contemptible,
according to Collins English Dictionary.

That’s offensive enough to ruffle the feathers of the Commons Speaker when
shouted across the Commons. Last night Tom Watson, the Labour MP, went a
little further and called Michael Gove a “miserable pipsqueak”, prompting
the intervention of John Bercow.

Had he called him a “cheeky young pup”, he would also have been breaking the
rules of parliamentary acceptability.

Mr Bercow may be feeling quite sensitive about “sizeist” insults. Last week a
minister, under his breath, called him a “stupid sanctimonious dwarf.”